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Tag Archives: Culture
Specialization be damned
They died from…overspecializationMore
The choir was silenced like a burnt speaker
It echoed on and on after the total silenceMore
Exposure
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. –JulianMore
The Photograph
The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. –JulianMore
No aspect of the thing before us
Only a catastrophe can save us. –Zizek, paraphrasing Heidegger, who said in his Der Spiegel inteview, “only a god can save us.”More
Impersonal Love
Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise. –NagarjunaMore
(Un)Certain Truth(s) III of XI, or, The whole truth
…even the Sphinx has eyes.More
Trying on different lives.
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life. –NietzscheMore
On standing when the ground is slippery
Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm. –SartreMore
The Insanity, the Courage, the Presumption of Writers!
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. –SartreMore
Once the rage settled down
We were as little sure of who we were as where we were after the rageMore
Karl and Jasmine
He had the best songs in Key West. Songs celebrating the town. At least he knew he had themMore
The issue of skepticism
Skepticism just might be inseparable from a certain type of faithMore
A Metamorphosis
Why are we all staring at the same spot on the ground? Or at the same spotlessness of the sky?More
Love the Dust 